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2013
2013
Toward the Archival Multiverse: Challenging the Binary Opposition of the Personal and Corporate Archive in Modern Archival Theory and Practice
This article points to the binary oppositions that characterize modern archival theory and much practice in the English-speaking… 
Review
2011
Review
2011
The effect of social network sites on adolescents' social and academic development: Current theories and controversies
  • June Ahn
  • J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
  • 2011
  • Corpus ID: 1535758
Teenagers are among the most prolific users of social network sites (SNS). Emerging studies find that youth spend a considerable… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Computer-based Information Systems and Human Service Organisations: Emerging Problems and Future Possibilities
Abstract Computer-based information systems (IS) have been implemented in human service organisations over the last 30 years in… 
2009
2009
Technology-Supported Environments for Personalized Learning: Methods and Case Studies
  • 2009
  • Corpus ID: 143042906
Responding to the specific needs of each student, personalized learning has the potential to refocus education on the individual… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval
This paper studies the patterns of cultural differences observed in pictogram interpretation. We conducted a 14-month online… 
2005
2005
Working smarter: An applied model for “better thinking" in dynamic information organizations
Dynamic and even turbulent environmental conditions, driven by rapid technological change, aggravating financial uncertainty, and… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Social capital and access
Physical access to computers does not guarantee access to the information society. To help ensure that the first type of access… 
2002
2002
Incremental PDFA learning for conversational agents
  • Masayuki Okamoto
  • Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media…
  • 2002
  • Corpus ID: 17556287
When finite-state machines are used for dialogue models of a conversational agent, learning algorithms which learn probabilistic… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Knowledge management, organizational culture and Anglo-American higher education
La culture organisationnelle a un impact direct sur la facon dont sont incorporees et utilisees les technologies de l'information… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
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  • 2000
  • Corpus ID: 16244672
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